And, behold, I will lay bands upon thee, and thou shalt not turn thee from one side to another, till thou hast ended the days of thy siege.
Ver. 8. And, behold, I will lay bands upon thee.] To show that he was unchangeably resolved to ruin Judah, a whom the prophet here personateth. Some make the sense to be this, I will give thee strength to hold out in that thy long lying on one side till the city be taken. Of a nobleman of Louvain it is told, that he lay sixteen years in one posture - viz., with his face upwards. And Pradus saith he saw a madman who had lain upon one side fifteen years.
a Pertinacis poenae simulachrum est. - Oecolamp.